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- Use highly developed consultation skills efficiently to manage busy clinics whilst managing patient expectations.
- Ability to review and set up new methods of service delivery for efficient use of resources including virtual clinics where appropriate.
- Assist with decision-making where there are cognitive impairment barriers, employing Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) services or equivalent if necessary.
- Understand how culture or religious beliefs can affect patients’ decision-making and needs, and communicate these effectively to the team.
- Be sensitive to social situations and the impact these may be having on the patient, their carers and their disease.
- Understand when information must be shared more widely with schools, carers, police, etc. and understand the responsibilities and implications of sharing information.
- Receive and respond to communications in complex or challenging situations.
- Give specialist advice to non neuro-ophthalmologist specialists.
- Establish close relationships with neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology, endocrinology, rheumatology colleagues. Attend local multidisciplinary teams and work with other ophthalmic specialties to agree pathways of care.
- Liaise and support colleagues from other special interest areas, particularly medical retina, emergency ophthalmology and medical ophthalmology, to optimise patient care, when co-management is required.
- Promote professional values within the team.
- Work as a collaborative member of a team, respecting differences of opinion.
- Accept constructive and appropriately framed criticism.
- Support colleagues.
- Be an advocate for patients.
- Manage significant events and complaints, including writing formal reports.
- Understand and follow local policies in response to complaints.
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